Oil Prices Retreat as Traders
Await Word on Use of Reserve

By

Marie C. Sanchez Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Sept. 22, 2000 6:00 p.m. ET

NEW YORK -- Crude oil futures skidded Thursday as traders faced the prospect of extra barrels released from U.S. reserves.

November crude futures fell $1.24 to $34 a barrel at the New York Mercantile Exchange Thursday, after U.S. Vice President Al Gore Thursday urged President Bill Clinton to open the country's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to...